Located at the major campus crossroad between Harvard Yard and the Science Center at 1 Oxford Street, the Plaza is home to a myriad of University activities including the Arts First Festival, Farmers’ Market, weekly lunch time concerts, and more.

Sitting atop the Cambridge Street Underpass, the site connects the historic Harvard Yard with the University Science Center and North Campus, and exemplifies a new kind of public infrastructure—acting as a model of contemporary sustainable design in service of rich and exciting social spaces.

Stoss：The Plaza at Harvard University is a gathering space at the heart of the university, designed to serve students, faculty, staff, visitors, and the local community. Sitting atop the Cambridge Street Underpass, the site connects the historic Harvard Yard with the University Science Center and North Campus, exemplifying a new kind of ...

The Plaza, located just outside the Science Center, is a premiere outdoor venue, with flexible space capable of hosting events both small and large. You can book the Plaza for your upcoming event now by contacting the Events Management office.

Plaza Hardscape is generally available November and mid-March to mid-April. Plaza Hardscape is the large flat, stone paver surface normally occupied by the Plaza Tent during the fall and spring.

Sitting atop the Cambridge Street Underpass, the site connects the historic Harvard Yard with the University Science Center and North Campus, and exemplifies a new kind of public infrastructure—acting as a model of contemporary sustainable design in service of rich and exciting social spaces.

The Plaza is a large flexible use, outdoor piazza, available to the Harvard community for University events and activities. Common Spaces programs the space for a wide variety of purposes to promote and enhance the academic, social, and cultural wellbeing of Harvard’s students, faculty, staff, and academic personnel.

A new kind of public infrastructure and sitting atop the Cambridge Street Underpass, the plaza connects the historic Harvard Yard with the university Science Center and North Campus and acts as a model of contemporary sustainable design in service of rich and exciting social spaces.

The Plaza at Harvard University is a new gathering space at the heart of the university. The plaza reconnects the historic Harvard Yard with the university Science Center and North Campus and acts as a model of contemporary sustainable design in service of rich and exciting social spaces.

Harvard Plaza, establishes a vibrant community in a space previously rendered lifeless by a lack of accommodation for anything but passing through. In contrast, the new space plays on people’s inexhaustible craving for discovery, for physical and sensorial experiences, for social interaction of many sorts; it is flexible and is set up ...